A group of Muslim youths, on Friday attacked St. Philips
Catholic Parish, Baki Iku, very close to Zuma Rock in Niger State. according to
reports, some Catholics had gone to the church to pray and were attacked by the
Muslims who claimed that Friday is their day of prayer and that the Church only
has right to worship on Sundays.
Information gathered from eyewitnesses said, they were
destroying the Church properties: the doors and the windows. Some soldiers
managed to get there later but a lot of harms have been done to the building,
while the Christians ran away in different directions to avoid being killed.
Rev Fr. Luka Sylvester Gopep, the Vicar-General of the
Diocese confirmed the incident.
He said, “Sometime around 2pm, some Muslim youths in
their hundreds left their Mosque after their Friday Jumat prayer and rushed to
the Church premises, climbed the wall and destroyed everything in the
Church: the windows, the alter, musical instruments, the chapel.
“The security man in the church premises was beaten to pulp.
Some women who were holding a prayer meeting were chased away. The seminarian
who is resident in the premises was also beaten up and chased away.”
Just last week, Mrs Eunice Olawale Elisha, a mobile preacher
of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) was killed by some fanatical
Muslims in Kubwa, FCT.
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